M2: San Marino GP: Interwetten Moriwaki Friday report

Luthi starts from Zero in Misano
The first free practice of the Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di
Rimini went different than expected for Tom Luthi and the Interwetten
Moriwaki Moto2 Team. The changes they made with the geometry of...

Luthi starts from Zero in Misano

The first free practice of the Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di
Rimini went different than expected for Tom Luthi and the Interwetten
Moriwaki Moto2 Team. The changes they made with the geometry of the bike
this afternoon went in the wrong direction and did not help Luthi at all. He
lost a lot of time because of this setting change and was not able to catch
up to the other competitors. But the first free practice is a session where
you can test such things and there is still enough time to change the
direction. Tomorrow the team will go back to the set up of Indianapolis and
it will hopefully go better then. Luthi finished the first free practice in
Misano on 27th position.

Tom Luthi, 27 -- 1'41.799:

"We changed something on the geometry of the bike and went back to Zero as
we are still looking for rear-grip. Unfortunately it did not work at all,
especially not in the high-speed corner 10. We lost a lot of time because of
that and it didn't help us at all. Now we will go back to the settings from
Indianapolis and then it will work again."

Terrell Thien, Team Manager:

"There are settings that throw you back to the end when you try them. We
tried something that could have been the perfect way or like with us the
wrong direction. It didn't help us. We also have a disadvantage regarding
testing on this track and then we have to use the first free practice to try
such things. Tomorrow we will change direction again and it will work."